Hacker News: kingbirdy

New comment by kingbirdy in "Show HN: I made a Paldeck website, all Paldeck Pals in Palworld"

kingbirdy — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:35:51 +0000

This seems like a premature launch, there's nothing on the page that's useful when playing the game. It would be great to actually see what the skills do, their work abilities, and all the other info that's available in the game's paldex, or especially to get info that's not actually available in game like regional distributions.

New comment by kingbirdy in "Let Teenagers Sleep"

kingbirdy — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:15:37 +0000

Yes, high-achieving teenagers are mostly tired all the time

New comment by kingbirdy in "Let Teenagers Sleep"

kingbirdy — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:13:06 +0000

You're missing two things, one for each age group:

For the younger kids, each hour earlier they start is an hour earlier they finish, which means parents need to either finish work earlier (not possible for most people), or pay for an additional hour of after-school child care (expensive). Having free child care to cover the gap between school finishing and work finishing is extremely rare, and the acceptable age to leave your child unattended after school is going up due to over protective parenting (for example, I was a latchkey kid starting in the 3rd grade, but nowadays that seems almost unheard of until middle school).

For the older kids, starting later means sports / extracurriculars finish later, potentially after dark or after the parents are done working and expect kids to be coming home.

New comment by kingbirdy in "Goodbye, passwords (1Password Passkey support)"

kingbirdy — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 19:52:00 +0000

I don't think you responded to the comment you meant to

New comment by kingbirdy in "Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"

kingbirdy — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 18:15:28 +0000

I've been listening for about 30 minutes and it's pretty neat, I've already found some new music I like. However, the weather forecast told me it was 275° F.

New comment by kingbirdy in "2022 in GPUs: The shortage ends, but higher prices seem here to stay"

kingbirdy — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 20:27:08 +0000

Price fixing increases profits as long as nobody undercuts you, that's the whole point

New comment by kingbirdy in "Mickey’s Copyright Adventure: Early Disney Toon Is Set to Be Public Property"

kingbirdy — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 20:23:09 +0000

A new score would certainly qualify as "materially different", to GPs point

New comment by kingbirdy in "I started taking English classes at the age of 46"

kingbirdy — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 17:45:37 +0000

> I was once unmasked in an old video game though because of a mistake specific to that game and people from my country, a mistake I had internalized since childhood. That was quite shocking to me...

I'm curious to know what the "mistake" was here. Is it something like referring to in-game items via their name in your native language, instead of English?

New comment by kingbirdy in "What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)"

kingbirdy — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 15:16:05 +0000

Because there are many large companies who's entire purchasing procedure seems to be to select whoever's furthest in the top right of Gartner's quadrants

New comment by kingbirdy in "America’s favorite family outings are increasingly out of reach"

kingbirdy — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:08:10 +0000

For many people (esp. kids and "Disney adults"), Disney{land,world} isn't a type of theme park, it's its own experience that could never be substituted with Six Flags or Universal Studios, and Disney clearly has a "monopoly" on Disney-branded parks. I believe that was OP's point. Another commenter has already explained how Major League Baseball is literally a federally granted monopoly.

New comment by kingbirdy in "A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by 2028"

kingbirdy — Tue, 03 May 2022 14:10:48 +0000

How are Germans using two orders of magnitude more electricity than Americans?

New comment by kingbirdy in "Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy"

kingbirdy — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:29:56 +0000

There are limits to how much he can borrow against his assets, both due to banking risk models and Tesla bylaws. He's too close to those limits already to borrow another $20B.

New comment by kingbirdy in "The Welfare Effects of Dynamic Pricing: Evidence from Airline Markets"

kingbirdy — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:21:58 +0000

Concert tickets _are_ dynamically priced, at least for some events. See Ticketmaster's "Official Platinum"[0] which is a dynamic pricing system for the best seats, I imagine other companies have something similar.

[0]: https://help.ticketmaster.com/s/article/What-are-Official-Pl...

New comment by kingbirdy in "Official Ukrainian BTC wallet has $2M and is growing thanks to global donations"

kingbirdy — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 14:58:58 +0000

Ukraine is not a dictatorship, their most recent election was widely recognized as fair by international observers.

New comment by kingbirdy in "Launch HN: Demigod (YC S19) – Build compounding habits with a dedicated coach"

kingbirdy — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 17:15:24 +0000

The point of enabling that option is that users want you to use the relay so they don't have to give you their real email address. If you're just trying to send an email, why isn't the relay acceptable?

New comment by kingbirdy in "New York passes law that will ban all gas-powered car sales by 2035"

kingbirdy — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 14:38:01 +0000

Could you provide some substantive backing you your claims? Why won't this ever happen? Why do you think this is about "being bold" rather than "managing things rationally"? What's irrational about electric vehicles?

New comment by kingbirdy in "The quest to recreate a lost and ‘terrifying’ medieval mead"

kingbirdy — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 13:39:38 +0000

> Knee-jerk virtue signalling is not a sign of a good historian

The author isn't and never claimed to be a historian. Their bio on Atlas Obscura says "I'm a senior editor and writer at Atlas Obscura, bee steward, mead maker and veteran of karaoke in Antarctica."

New comment by kingbirdy in "Samsung's Lee family to pay over $10.8B inheritence tax"

kingbirdy — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 13:47:33 +0000

You aren't obligated to accept anything given to you as a gift or in a will.

New comment by kingbirdy in "The Endless Life Cycle of Japanese City Pop"

kingbirdy — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 02:44:08 +0000

Pitchfork is the name of the website that's hosting the article

New comment by kingbirdy in "Solving the “garage orphans” problem (2019)"

kingbirdy — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 21:17:14 +0000

> What prevents their neighbour parking in their stall for a few hours and using their power?

Presumably the same thing that stops you from parking in your neighbor's driveway and charging using their outdoor outlets - it's illegal, and the savings of a few dollars isn't worth the potential penalties.